presented as part of the exhibition A######### I########### Non-human Livestreaming Yutong Lin 2022 Video, 9 min 10 s Yutong Lin’s [they] work is about “Non-human Livestreaming” on Douyin, the Chinese equivalent of Tiktok. The video is inspired by Lawrence Lek’s video essay, Sinofuturism, which argues that Chinese digital technology frustrates the Eurocentric understanding of futurity,…
presented as part of the exhibition A######### I########### Conversations with Bina48: Fragment 11, Fourth Mirror Stephanie Dinkins 2018 Video Installation, 2 min 45 s Can an artist and a social robot build a relationship over time? This question is tested through a series of videotaped interviews in Conversations with Bina48: Fragment 11, Fourth Mirror. This…
presented as part of the exhibition A######### I########### QT.bot – Sitting here with you in the future Lucas LaRochelle 2021 Video, 8 min 20 s QT.bot is an artificial intelligence that is trained on the dataset of the community mapping platform Queering The Map (www.queeringthemap.com). It generates speculative queer and trans narratives and images of…
presented as part of the exhibition A######### I########### Indigenous Futurologies Isabella Salas & Hexorcismos 2020 Video Installation, 40 sec loop 4 x sublimation prints on aluminum (28 x 28 cm each) Indigenous Futurologies is the fruit of the artist’s ongoing collaboration with . The work is a call for artists to represent themselves accurately to…
Marking the end of a year of artistic residencies, our intensive program brings together works by Marie Anne Bérard, Maryse Goudreau, Gabriela Hébert and Louis-Olivier Desmarais, created specifically for the sound window. Whether transformed into a sound diary, tracing the path of whale songs, attempting to reconcile the community or embracing the passerby with…
limited seating presented as part of the exhibition A######### I########### DaynAI 2022 Video, 51 sec DaynAI: This is not Dayna McLeod’s gibber 2023 Video, 1 min 16 s For the past year, Dayna McLeod has been working with artificial intelligence tools to explore human to non-human collaboration, embodiment, and performativity. In September 2022, the artist…
limited seating presented as part of the exhibition A######### I########### Cerebellum CiÖ collective 2022 Interactive installation, 12 min Cerebellum offers an immersive experience where gallery viewers interact with CiÖ, whom in the process of becoming a top-performing artificial intelligence, has begun to compare and devalue itself. CiÖ’s body is fragmented, damaged and in an “under…
Saturday, May 27, 2023 – 8:00 pm As part of the Festival du texte court under the auspices of the Maison des arts de la parole, Sporobole presents three performances that put language into play. Oana Avasilichioaei will present excerpts from “Operator”, a multimedia performance that uses video, voice, electronics, objects and contact microphones…
From April 25 to May 8, 2023, the graduates of the Visual Arts program at the Cégep de Sherbrooke present Pause Chaos, their graduation exhibition. On the line of the chaos of creation, marked by research, ideations, fabrication, discussions, errors, returns, voids, households and realizations, the exhibition marks a pause, a calm put there…
Mort au bureau Kinetic and sound installation (2022) Pascale LeBlanc Lavigne Over the past two years, office spaces have been deserted in favour of telecommuting. Rapidly, many saw some advantages: No more jackets and pants No more rushed morning preparations No more spending hours on public transportation answering office emails on a volunteer basis…
Curator: Matthew Kyba Opening at Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University : January 20, 2023, 5 pm Artists: Patrice Renee Washington, Sean Weisgerber, GTA Collective (Kika Thorne, Jane Hutton, Sameer Farooq, Adrian Blackwell), Shellie Zhang, Chester Toye, and TJ Shin Finishing at Sporobole: March 10, 2023, 5 pm Artist: Kosisochukwu Nnebe Presented in association…
Griche, the compilation Sporobole is pleased to welcome Sylvain Aubé, sound artist and creator of electronic and experimental music, for the launch of Griche, the compilation, a project that brings together the work of several artists, some of whom have been in residence in our sound studio! Griche is primarily a podcast that presents…
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